New Pacer entries show fascinating activity by IBM. First prize to whoever figures out what they are doing. I acknowledge I have no clue what Sherwin-Williams has to do with this, but clearly something new is up. As you can see in Pacer entries 381 and 382, IBM has sent subpoenas to Autozone, Sherwin-Williams, Intel, Target, Oracle, and Computer Associates:

1/19/05 -- 381 -- Certificate of service by Intl Bus Mach Inc re: Subpoenas
Duces Tecum issued to: Target Corporation; Autozone, Inc.;
Sherwin-Williams Corp.; and Intel Corporation. (Note: Filing not considered a return of service executed as there
was no proof of service/declaration of server included with
these documents.) (tsh) [Entry date 01/21/05]

1/19/05 -- 382 -- Certificate of service by Intl Bus Mach Inc re: Subpoenas
issued to Oracle Corp. and Computer Associates, Inc. (Note: Filing not considered a return of service executed as there
was no proof of service/declaration of server included with
these documents.) (tsh) [Entry date 01/21/05]

The reason it looks like something new is IBM subpoenaed Oracle back in April. They already asked them to turn over:

all documents concerning any communications with SCO and/or Canopy regarding Unix or Linux;

all documents concerning any meetings between SCO and/or Canopy regarding Unix or Linux;

all documents concerning any agreements relating to Unix or Linux, including but not limited to licenses, license agreements, software agreements and sublicensing agreements;

all documents concerning all efforts by Oracle to ensure or maintian the secrecy or confidentiality of any Unix source code, know-how, ideas, concepts, techniques, or methods to any person;

all documents concerning any agreements or understandings (written or oral) between Oracle and SCO;

all documents concerning any business relations (past, present or prospective) between Oracle and SCO.

What else could they possibly ask for or about? A reader found this and wonders if there is a database angle.

Wait a second. Could this be the Sherwin-Williams connection, that they switched from SCO UNIX to Linux in 2002 with the help of IBM? We know about AutoZone. Target was listed as a SCO customer in the original SCO complaint. I'm starting to see some breadcrumbs on the pathway.